Highland Summer

 Mountains,hills and fields,such beauty,peaceful in my soul......it's a highland love this summer through....

 

One of my songs is Highland Summer Love  .....sort of a joyous hand-clapping Laura Nyro shuffle kind of thing......riding with a friend under July northwest Connecticut skies this summer (2010) we emerged from a dense verdant covering of trees,damp,balmy in the heat...to a corner in the road ..at which the landscape completely dropped off below us and into the distance....a brilliant world of sun,trees ,villages and endless sky below and beyond. I gasped,speechless,heart-full.....and I remembered this young girl once me with a melody and lyric that burst into my head two decades ago...a similar moment.....and at first  chance, headed for my piano.

Many thanks and much love to Giuseppe.